Crosstown-arch for intersecting trolley-wires.



.No. 768,864. PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904.

I A. NEUBERT.

GROSSTOWN ARCH FOR INTERSEUTING TROLLBY WIRES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 10, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Inventor Witnesses Attorney Patented August 30, 1904.

UNTTED STATES PATENT @trrca.

AUGUSTUS NEUBERT, OF ELIZABETH, NEIV JERSEY.

CROSSTOWN-ARCH FOR INTERSECTING TROLLEY-WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,864, dated August 30, 1904.

Application filed December 10, 1903. Serial No. 184,642. (No model.)

To (LZZJUI'LOWT/ it may concern.-

both, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Crosstown-Arches for Intersecting Trolleyires; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an improved crosstownarch for trolley-wires of electric railroads; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved crosstown-arch which serves to ef fectually house crossed trolley-wires, so as to protect them from the elements and prevent accumulation of snow or ice at the intersection of the wires and which is also adapted for supporting the crossed trolley-wires at difierent elevations, so that a trolley operating in connection with either of the trolleywires will not interfere with the other at the point of intersection of the said trolley-wires.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure is a perspective view of a crosstown-arch embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same, taken on the plane indicated by the line a a of Fig. 2.

My improved crosstown-arch comprises the wings I 2, arranged at right angles or at any other desired angle with reference to each other. In practice my improved crosstownarch may be made of a single piece of sheet or plate metal, or it may be a casting. The wings 1 2 intersect at their centers, and their respective sides or walls 3 4 are connected by hoods 5 6, which coact with the sides or walls to house the trolley-wires at the point of the intersection thereof, and thereby to exclude rain, hail, and snow and prevent the lodgment of snow or ice at the point where the trolley-wires cross. The respective wings of the crosstown-arch are provided, preferably,-

at the ends of their hoods with loops 7 for the attachment of the wires used for suspending the arch and supporting the same in place. The hood of the wing 2 is here shown as considerablyhigher than that of the wing 1. The ends of the walls or sides of the wings are curved outwardly at their lower corners, as at 8, to clear the forks of the trolley-poles and guide the same into and through the wings, and the side walls of the latter coact with the forks of the trolley-poles to prevent the trolley-wheels from becoming disengaged from the trolley-wires near their point of intersection; but such disengagement can be had at will by lowering the trolley-pole, as usual.

I here show trolley-Wires 9 10 disposed to cross each other and arranged, respectively, in and through the Wings 1 2. The wire 10 is continuous and is supported at such an elevation from the wire 9 as to clear the forks of the pole of a trolley-wheel operating on the wire 9, so that there will be no interference, and the wire 9 has an opening 11 directly under the wire 10 to clear the fork and pole of a trolley-wheel operating on the wire,

10. Hangers 12 are shown, which support the said trolley-wires in place in the arch. These hangers are preferably of the construction shown, described, and claimed in my copending application for Letters Patent of the United States, filed December 10, 1903, Serial No. 184,6t1. The trolley-wheel is of such di ameter as to enable it to close the opening 11 in the wire 9 when passing through thearch.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An arch for crossed trolley-wires, having wings for the several wires, and wires extending from the respective wings at different elevations, the upper wire being continuous through the arch and the lower wire having an opening therein under the upper wire.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 1n presence of two subscribing Wit- 2. An arch for crossed trolley-Wires, having wings for the several wires and means to support the Wires at different ele\"ations. nesses.

An arch for crossed trolley-Wires, hev- AUGUSTUS NEUBEHL. 5 ing intersecting hoods, crossed Wires under \Vitnesses:

the respective hoods, and means to support FREDERICK Hamlin,

the crossed wires at different elevations. K. P. \VIGRNER. 

